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Sunday, December 20, 2015

Ten top Christmas books

Matt Haig's newest book, A Boy Called Christmas, is out now in the UK. One of the author's top ten Christmas books, as shared at the Guardian:

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

One of the funniest things in print. This is a collection of essays about Christmas. The first one, Santaland Diaries, is Sedaris’s take on working as an elf during holiday season at Macy’s department store and is painful in all the right ways. Another essay reviews the local school’s Christmas pageant with delightful mischief.